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August 18, 2005
here we go...
...well, the last document needed to sign my life away was filed properly yesterday afternoon. yesterday morning, i plunged completely into the psychology department of Iowa State University for yet another year. part of my screams, "yay! i'm back!" and part of me says "wait--WHY am i going to school again?"
actually, it was really encouraging. a girl i worked in the lab with this past year, symone, is going to be in the social program with me. not only that, but we have the same assistantship at the ISBR. the sweet part about all this is that on the last day of lab this last semester, we were both like, "well, have a nice life" because we were both graduating and neither one had plans to go to grad school right away...let alone at ISU.
and then, as i start to get informational emails, i see her email address. is it for real? is symone really coming back too? well, the answer is obviously: yes!! we both applied really, really late and both got in :)
i'm excited for what God might want to do there. there's another girl in the social program, ashley, who i met (along with about eight other rockers) when we tried to help her and her husband move into their new house. i say tried because they already had everything moved by the time we got there. but she's a christian AND she loves statistics (which i have been dreading). i hope that we'll be able to be an encouragement to one another as we navigate being christians in a secular graduate program.
in addition to all this, there's still good ol' friley and of course, dorm ministry! i'm such a lifer. it has been so good. yesterday, i saw a bunch of kids who lived on my floor last year (they're sophomores this year) and they all wanted to know why i didn't just live with them while i went to grad school...it's so nice to be wanted. but it was cool...the budding flowers of the relationships had endured the summer. i'm looking forward to being involved in their, and many other younger students, lives this fall.
oh yeah...and perhaps the most encouraging this of all lately (this may embarrass her), but mrs. heerema! dudes...do you realize how much this woman prays for us? i'm amazed. and i'm excited because i know that God is going to use this woman to grow my faith and my commitment to prayer. AND i thought she should be publicly praised for it :)
alright, wow, nothing especially deep in that post, but hopefully, when i start reading more journal articles, all the psychological mumbo jumbo will start flowing again!
Posted by Autumn at 12:33 PM | Comments (0)